Charley Crockett will release his new album Lonesome Drifter, on March 14, via Island Records. On January 31st, Crockett will release the album’s title track and accompanying video. Crockett co-produced the album alongside Shooter Jennings. Over the course of just 10 days, they cut the record’s 12 tracks live at the legendary Sunset Sounds Studio in Los Angeles, CA.

“Shooter and I barely talked about it,” says Charley. “I just brought all of my guys out, and the album made itself. It was live without a lot of overdubs. There were no inhibitions. I wasn’t being judged, and I didn’t feel self-conscious. Shooter knew how to cut loose and let this thing unfold.”

“I started writing the song back when I was still playing in subways in New York,” he recalls. “It’s how I learned to play electric guitar with an amp on my shoulder. While I was waiting for the next train, I wrote songs. A few years later, I was in California working on the ganja farms, and I came up with the ‘Lonesome Drifter’ section. When I arrived on the West Coast, I worked to stay out there as a drifter, so I could get away with playing music for a living. At night, I was doing heavy electric blues and hillbilly shit at local bars for six hours. Shooter got me back into that mindset. The burden of becoming a troubadour is you’re standing in a position that gives you a clear perspective of the struggles of humans. When all is said and done, everyone is just swinging a hammer to survive.”

All of that work and life effectively prepared him to record Lonesome Drifter with Shooter. Musically, he traces a roadmap through his own myriad of influences, tipping a hat to everybody from Waylon Jennings, Bill Withers, Bob Dylan, and Woody Guthrie, drawing on countless, often unbelievable true experiences since he first left his native Texas.

Charley Crockett
Lonesome Drifter
Tracklisting
Island Records

1. Lonesome Drifter
2. Game I Can’t Win
3. Jamestown Ferry
4. Easy Money
5. Under Neon Lights
6. This Crazy Life
7. The Death Of Bill Bailey
8. Never No More
9. Life Of A Country Singer
10. One Trick Pony
11. Night Rider
12. Amarillo By Morning

Charley Crockett 2025 North American live Dates

Feb 13 – Vancouver, CA – Rogers Arena*
Feb 15 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena*
Feb 16 – Portland, OR – Moda Center*
Mar 17 – Houston, TX – Houston Rodeo
Mar 18 – Austin, TX – Austin Rodeo
Mar 20 – Tulsa, OK – The Cove at River Spirit Casino
Mar 21 – Durant, OK – Choctaw Casinos & Resorts
Apr 5 – New Orleans, LA – Hogs for the Cause Festival
Apr 25 – Oxford, MS – Double Decker Arts Festival
May 10 – Knoxville, TN – Southern Skies Music & Whiskey Festival
Jun 5 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl^
Aug 9 – Beech Mountain, NC – Beech Mountain Ski Resort@
Oct 10 – Nashville, TN – Geodis Park+
Oct 11 – Nashville, TN – Geodis Park+
Nov 8 – Miramar Beach, FL – Moon Crush Live “Whiskey Moon”

* w/ Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
^ w/ Leon Bridges
@ w/ with 49 Winchester
+ w/ Tyler Childers

Pre-order Lonesome Dreamer by Charlie Crockett HERE